India, Oct. 4 -- Around 150 women and queer people marched from Necklace Lake View to People's Plaza in Hyderabad on Saturday, October 3, raising slogans and carrying placards demanding safer and more accessible public spaces.

Vaishnavi Moola, one of the organisers, said the march was prompted by the state of women's safety and the restrictions often imposed on women after incidents of violence.

"We no longer want to sit at home," she said. "When we face a problem, they put more restrictions on us and say we cannot go into parks after six o'clock. That is not justified. We want to reclaim public space."

Moola said the organisers were influenced by work on women reclaiming public spaces and how their presence can force authorities to ad...